I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, ¹  with richly colored fabric ²  from Egypt.

A person’s gift ¹  makes room for him, and leads him ²  before important people.

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats ¹  in the synagogues ²  and elaborate greetings ³  in the marketplaces!

So neither the one who plants counts for anything, ¹  nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

At that time they had in custody a notorious prisoner named Jesus ¹  Barabbas.

Paul answered, ¹  “I am a Jew ²  from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. ³  Please ⁴  allow me to speak to the people.”

They will judge ¹  the people under normal circumstances, ²  and every difficult case ³  they will bring to you, but every small case ⁴  they themselves will judge, so that ⁵  you may make it easier for yourself, ⁶  and they will bear the burden ⁷  with you.

The Lord values the lives of his faithful followers. ¹ 

you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders ¹  on the earth,

Though his ¹  officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes, ² 

They ¹  love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues ² 

and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave ¹  of all.

and the best seats in the synagogues ¹  and the places of honor at banquets.

So now there are many members, but one body.

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.” ¹ 

But as it is, ¹  you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ¹  Solomon would offer up ²  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. ¹